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gamut
the entire scale of musical notes
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diatonic scale
a scale with eight notes in an octave; all but two are separated by whole tones
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chromatic scale
a 12-note scale including all the semitones of the octave
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gapped scale
a musical scale with fewer than seven notes
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pentatone, pentatonic scale
a gapped scale with five notes; usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted
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mode, musical mode
any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave